Thomas Kuhn (Thomas Samuel Kuhn) Quotes

What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

Thomas Kuhn

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• I'm not a character like Rapunzel or Cinderella; my story looks like any other.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
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• Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

  

  Wade Boggs
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• Pure mathematics is on the whole distinctly more useful than applied. For what is useful above all is technique, and mathematical technique is taught mainly through pure mathematics.

  

  G. H. Hardy
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• I was taught as a young child by my parents and family to love myself.

  

  Zendaya
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• My grandma taught me how to hand-sew, so I'm always making things from hand-me-downs.

  

  Becky G
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• My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.

  

  W. H. Auden
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• What looks like enjoyment is the sneer of contempt. That's not a smile.

  

  Jack Kevorkian
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• Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.

  

  Maya Angelou
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• My music is simple stuff. Anybody can sit down, look at a set of symbols and produce sounds the music represents.

  

  Chuck Berry
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• I definitely did look up to John. We all looked up to John. He was older and he was very much the leader; he was the quickest wit and the smartest.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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  • Leader

• John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Time
  • Pretty
  • Perfect

• Are you really angry, or simply aware of anger in the body and mind? Don't speculate, simply look at what is there.

  

  A. H. Almaas
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• I always carry a good lipstick with me, like MAC in Ruby Woo. It has a matt finish, the essence of that vintage glamour look.

  

  Paloma Faith
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  • Essence

• If I'm not in the mood to deal with you, then I just don't deal with you. I look at it like, me not dealing with you could save me a lot of trouble - me forcing myself to deal with you could bring me a lot of trouble. So I just play it by ear.

  

  T.I.
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• From my earliest years I had always wanted to be a writer. It was not that I had any particular message for humanity. I am still plugging away and not the ghost of one so far, so it begins to look as though, unless I suddenly hit mid-season form in my eighties, humanity will remain a message short.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
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• If you look at sort of how politics has divided itself here in this country, the big divide right now is between urban areas, which have become increasingly Democratic, and rural or exurban areas that feel as if they're being ignored.

  

  Barack Obama
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• Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.

  

  Anne Carson
  • People
  • Good
  • Want

• When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Work
  • Want
  • Parents

• You look in excellent health to me, Potter, so you will excuse me if I don't let you off homework today. I assure you that if you do die, you need not hand it in.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Today
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• If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Time
  • God
  • Growing

• At Patagonia, making a profit is not the goal because the Zen master would say profits happen 'when you do everything else right'.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Goal
  • Profit
  • Patagonia

• And all she knew was that she was deeply, truly, madly in love with him.

  

  Bella Andre
  • Love

• I love life, and I have a lot of gratitude. There have been a lot of bumps in the road, but my sense of humor gets me through a lot.

  

  Shelley Morrison
  • Road
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  • Bumps

• What a man sees depends both upon what he looks at and also upon what his previous visual-conceptual experience has taught him to see.

  

  Thomas Kuhn
  • Looks
  • Taught
  • Depends